Syed Haider Raza, who passed away today, aged 94, remained driven, until the end, by some form of inner necessity. Also read: The last great moderns | Syed Haider RazaFrom the leafy, lyrical seascape, Raza moved into the dramatically geometric Haut de Cagnes. Raza left for Paris in September 1950, armed with a scholarship to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Raza was born in 1922 in the Madala district of Madhya Pradesh, where his last rites are to be performed, in accordance with his wishes. “In the first few years in Paris, Raza painted strange uninhabited cities devoid of any human presence or location in time or space.

Source: Mint July 23, 2016 16:39 UTC